Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 2010, 4:41 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2010, 4:41 PM MDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2010, 5:21 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 265 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
887
WFUS55 KPUB 212241
TORPUB
COC071-212345-
/O.NEW.KPUB.TO.W.0002.100421T2241Z-100421T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
441 PM MDT WED APR 21 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 545 PM MDT
* AT 439 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES WEST OF TYRONE...OR 25 MILES NORTH OF
TRINIDAD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3779 10431 3773 10410 3759 10402 3739 10438
3751 10454
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 223DEG 15KT 3752 10438
$$3 follow-up statements
840
WWUS55 KPUB 212252
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
452 PM MDT WED APR 21 2010
COC071-212345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100421T2345Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
452 PM MDT WED APR 21 2010
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS
COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM MDT...
AT 448 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF TYRONE...OR 27 MILES NORTHEAST
OF TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3779 10431 3773 10410 3759 10402 3739 10438
3751 10454
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 234DEG 14KT 3754 10430
$$732
WWUS55 KPUB 212305
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
505 PM MDT WED APR 21 2010
COC071-212345-
/O.CON.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100421T2345Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
505 PM MDT WED APR 21 2010
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS
COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM MDT...
AT 502 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF TYRONE...OR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF
TRINIDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3779 10431 3773 10410 3759 10402 3739 10438
3751 10454
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 239DEG 15KT 3757 10424
$$035
WWUS55 KPUB 212321
SVSPUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
521 PM MDT WED APR 21 2010
COC071-212331-
/O.CAN.KPUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100421T2345Z/
LAS ANIMAS CO-
521 PM MDT WED APR 21 2010
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR THE AREA...HOWEVER QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS TO
60 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3779 10431 3773 10410 3759 10402 3739 10438
3751 10454
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 216DEG 13KT 3762 10422
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 3:57 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PUB | El Paso | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas, Pueblo | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Huerfano, Las Animas | 54 min |
| Apr 21, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 56 min |
| Apr 21, 5:09 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 22 min |
| Apr 21, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 53 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.